by admin | Mar 1, 2011 | animation
Susan Weiner is a fellow blogger and a friend, who I enjoy chatting with, both through emails and our respective blogs. After seeing my recent move into the world of animation, she asked me to be a “guest blogger,” which I was of course very pleased to do....
by admin | Feb 28, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It’s Animation Monday, and today we have a brief explanation as to the key differences between time- and money-weighting. It’s funny that these differences aren’t understood by even the most senior of PMPs (performance measurement professionals). I...
by admin | Feb 25, 2011 | animation, CIPM
We thought it would be helpful to introduce this video, which provides an overview of the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) program. We support the program and encourage all performance measurement professionals to pursue it. If you won’t,...
by admin | Feb 25, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards
This matter came up recently with one of our GIPS(R) (Global Investment Performance Standards) verification clients, and is worthy of some discussion.What is a balanced account? I would say the characteristics are basically three:It’s an account that invests in...
by admin | Feb 24, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
One of the books I was assigned in my doctoral program is William H. Starbuck’s The Production of Knowledge, which I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend. It can be viewed as a softer criticism of the idea of predicting the future than Nassim Taleb’s...
